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Bengal: Rs 2,744 of NREGA Wages Pending, Workers’ Group Says ‘Rights Violated’

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MGNREGA workers in West Bengal have not been paid wages since December 26, 2021, which is a violation of their fundamental rights, the Morcha said.

New Delhi: The NREGA Sangarsh Morcha on Monday marked one year of the Centre withholding the release of over Rs 7,500 crore of MGNREGA funds to West Bengal as protest demonstrations took place across the state.

MGNREGA workers in the state have not been paid wages since December 26, 2021, which is a violation of their fundamental rights, the Morcha said. It demanded immediate release of pending wages, compensation for the delay at the rate of 0.05% per day for the entire duration, and initiation of new work and job cards, among others.

The Centre has not released the funds to the state for “non-compliance of central government directives” and invoked Section 27 of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

According to a report by Libtech India, the pending wages amount to a staggering Rs 2,744 crore. It also states that there is around Rs 3,891 crores of perceived loss in NREGA wages from pre-Covid years (April to December 2018 and 2019) and Rs 6,046 crores in comparison to post-Covid years. Among different social groups, Scheduled Caste workers experienced the highest loss due to the stoppage works, the report says.

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